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Dinosaur Jr. (one of the most under-appreciated bands of the 90s imho) is playing at Showbox at the Market Sunday night and you need to be there. Why should you see these rock fossils? Well, there are quite a few reasons to see J, Lou and Murph this time around ranging from Farm being one of this year’s best rock records to the fact that you’ll likely never hear a three-piece rock so hard if you do make it to the show. But don’t take my word for it, take the word of this 2005 review of the band’s … …

Two great local bands, The Blakes and The Purrs, played Neumos Tuesday night. The show was to celebrate the upcoming release of The Blakes’ second record, Souvenir. It’s a dirty, garage-rock sex record. Ear Candy sent Alex Crick to the show to capture the action with his camera. Here’s what he saw. …

Ear Candy’s friends in We Wrote the Book on Connectors are having a bit of a party Friday night at the Crocodile. Actually, it’s not a party so much as it is a prom. Well, let’s just call it a party prom because every WE show is a party. Anyway, the good sirs of WE want you to be at their first ever Sweet Dreams Prom Night Friday. The bill features three of the finest indie pop bands in town: We Wrote the Book On Connectors, M. Bison and Tennis Pro. What do these three have in common aside from … …

Destroyer, aka the side project of Dan Bejar of Canadian supergroup The New Pornographers, will be playing a rare solo show at the Crocodile Wednesday night (8 p.m.; $12). Ear Candy will be there soaking up the solo set and hopes you will be there too. …

Chances are you’ve heard of Wasilla, Alaska. You know it as the home of snow machines and as a place where a certain former Republican vice presidential candidate can see Russia from her doorstep. That’s probably just about all anyone knows about this arctic town tucked far, far away from the rest of the continental United States. …

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